Greenway v. Hamilton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting in attorney fee context that “[b]ad faith is not simply bad judgment or negligence, but a breach of known duty through some motive of interest or ill will’ (citation and punctuation omitted)
• affirming the probate court’s order to the executor to forfeit his commissions because “the probate court has the power to require [an executor] to forfeit commissions and fees for breaching his fiduciary duties”
• affirming the probate court’s order to the executor to forfeit his commissions because “the probate court has the power to require [an executor] to forfeit commissions and fees for breaching his fiduciary duties”
• noting in attorney fee context that “[b]ad faith is not simply bad judgment or negligence, but . . . (a) breach of known duty through some motive of interest or ill will” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• affirming an award of attorney fees against an executor where evidence showed he had acted in bad faith and stating, “bad faith is not simply bad judgment or negligence, but a breach of known duty through some motive of interest or ill will” (cleaned up)
• “The administrator is a trustee, and as such he must exercise the utmost good faith in his administration[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).